• Events in the year 1959 in China. The country had an estimated population of 665 million people. Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong President...
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    Chinese-controlled territory. The concept was introduced by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai in a 1959 letter to Jawaharlal Nehru as the "line up to which each...
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  • The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic...
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    1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959. 1959 (MCMLIX) was...
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    China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous...
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    the city was fully retaken by Chinese security forces on 23 March 1959. Thousands of Tibetans were killed during the 1959 uprising, but the exact number...
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  • In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama escaped from China, together with members of his family and his government. They fled the Chinese authorities, who were...
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    weather and national policy on China's great demographic disaster" conclude that "in aggregate, from 1959 to 1961 China suffered about 14.8 million excess...
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  • scholars, but in China it is usually associated with the early Bronze Age site at Erlitou (1900–1500 BC) in Henan that was excavated in 1959. Since no writing...
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  • Anti-communism in China (simplified Chinese: 反共主义; traditional Chinese: 反共主義; pinyin: fǎn gòng zhǔyì) has a long history. Before the Chinese Communist Revolution...
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    Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...
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    Tea on Your First Taste) (in Chinese). Beijing: Lüyou Jiaoyu Chubanshe. p. 15. ISBN 9787563734054. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 1959年全国'十大名茶'评比会选出的中国十大名茶(西湖...
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    Christianity has been present in China since the early medieval period, and became a significant presence in the country during the early modern era. The...
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  • Ann Mui (category 1959 births)
    (10 December 1959 – 16 April 2000) was a Hong Kong singer and actress. Born on 10 December 1959 in China, Mui experienced much hardship in her childhood...
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  • following Chinese people: Li Xiaopeng (politician) (born 1959), Minister of Transport Li Xiaopeng (banker) (born 1959), Chinese banker, chairman of China Everbright...
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  • Chinese government, it lasted for twenty days in February 1959 and was one of the largest rural rebellions in China during the 1950s. Central China has...
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    the Tibetan social structure remained in place in the Tibetan polity under the authority of China until the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when the Dalai Lama...
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    Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the shìzhì ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although...
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    National People's Congress in 1954. At the 2nd NPC in 1959, Mao was succeeded by Liu Shaoqi, first-ranked Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. Liu...
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    Buddhism in China refers to Buddhism that has been developed and practiced in China, based on the geographical location and administrative region instead...
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  • 384 events in 42 sports. 2013 1959, 1965, 1975, 1979, 1993 2017 2009 2021 2005 1983, 1997 1987, 2001, 2025 All-China Games Asian Games China National Youth...
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    Taiwan (redirect from China, Republic of)
    Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern...
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    typhoon that caused minor damages in relative to the strength of the typhoon. Joan was the strongest typhoon of 1959 Pacific typhoon season, and one of...
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    According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macau,[clarify] there are three levels of cities:...
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    People's Republic of China after the Chinese Communist Party took control of mainland China in the Chinese Civil War. The 1959 Tibetan Rebellion and...
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  • Broadcasting Bureau that was founded in 1954. In April 1959, it was upgraded to the Beijing Broadcasting College (Chinese: 北京广播学院; pinyin: Běijīng Guǎngbō...
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    Chongwu Battle of Chamdo (1950) Lhasa Uprising (1959) The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan...
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  • of China held in Beijing. Only men competed in seven bodyweight categories which mostly mirrored the international standard at the time. In 1959 the...
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    (中华人民共和国国庆节), is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People's Republic of China, commemorating Mao Zedong's...
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  • Conceição (born 13 September 1959), better known as just China, is a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in five matches for the Brazil...
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